The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the LORD’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. Jer 29:22Ch 36:102Ki 24:12-161Sa 13:19-20Amo 3:7Amo 7:1Amo 7:4Amo 7:7 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Isa 5:4Isa 5:7Mic 7:1Ezk 15:2-5Hos 9:10Jer 24:5-10Jer 29:17Mal 1:12-14
Then the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” Amo 8:2Jer 1:11-14Mat 25:32-33Zec 4:2Zec 5:5-111Sa 9:9Amo 7:8Zec 5:2
I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that they can’t be eaten.”
The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “The LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, as good. Zec 13:9Nam 1:71Co 8:32Ti 2:19Deu 8:16Gal 4:9Heb 12:5-10Jhn 10:27 For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up. Jer 42:10Jer 29:10Jer 33:7Jer 12:15Jer 32:41Jer 1:10Jer 32:371Pe 3:12 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart. Heb 8:10Jer 30:22Ezk 37:23Ezk 36:24-28Ezk 11:19-20Zec 8:8Deu 30:2-6Rom 6:17
“‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely the LORD says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. Jer 43:1Jer 24:2Jer 29:16-18Jer 37:17Jer 39:2-9Ezk 12:12-16Ezk 17:11-21Jer 21:10 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them. Deu 28:37Jer 29:181Ki 9:7Jer 15:4Jer 25:18Jer 34:172Ch 7:20Deu 28:25 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’” Isa 51:19Ezk 5:12-17Jer 19:7Ezk 14:12-21Ezk 33:27Ezk 6:12-14Ezk 7:15Jer 14:15-16